We're just weeks away from this interstellar visitor reaching its brightest in Earth's night skies. Will we see it?

Astronomers believe they may have uncovered evidence of a hidden Earth -size planet lurking in the outer solar system. Dubbed “Planet Y”, the proposed world could be nearly twice as close to Earth as ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

Since Pluto was relegated to dwarf planet status, almost everyone has agreed that there are eight planets in our solar system ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the Universe), states ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

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